Buy anything cool lately?

@leapinlarry posted:

Wow, my dealer fixed the coupler issue so now the TM3 FM is home.

Larry,
What kind of coupler problem did you have?

@StevefromPA posted:

Some neat stuff over the last 10 days or so. Although today might beat it all(that’ll come later though)

Was ecstatic to walk into my LHS and find  three mth railking passenger car 4 packs, some 2 packs and a single...all from the Lehigh Valley RR! And all 4 packs were different- bright red, dark red/brown and  this scheme:

Bought the single, have the 4 pack on hold and will be getting it shortly! As I live in the Lehigh Valley, these are tough to find.

Have to ask Steve, what's your LHS?

I live just outside of Harrisburg & I'm always looking to visit new shops.  One benefit of living in Pennsylvania is the sheer volume of train oriented stores around!

Big Jim, in answering your question, my dealer said the pin holding the coupler open or closed was bent during assembly at the factory. That was a fairly easy fix for my dealer. I’m just happy that it didn’t have to go back to Lionel.

Glad to hear it was something simple.

Larry you have the best toys.

Just purchased a #2343. Rear motor had to be worked on but I got it operating with a good servicing. Actually my first post war diesel added to my steam collection. Needed some variety.

Got this Atlas Pluto Water car recently.  Story goes,  my wife and I spent our first anniversary at French Lick Springs hotel in 1981, home of Pluto Water Springs.  Rode the French Lick and West Baden Railroad.  In the very early 1990's  I bought the k-line version of this car.  Sold it a month ago to a fellow club member.  Last week our son surprised me with the Atlas car.

Here's both cars,  Atlas on top, K-line below.

Got my package of trucks from Atlantis before Thanksgiving. Ended up orderin 6 of them figuring I can make up a bunch of diffrent colors. Yesterday USPS dropped off the TCA TOFC's I had ordered a while back. They were suppose to be Weaver TOFC's  but production problems caused Lionel to substitute theirs. I do hope Lionel will be able to make the Weaver ones again because I like them better. Pics..................Paul 2

@paul 2 man those are cool Tofcees! Love Seaboard by itself, even though I don’t all Seaboard consists.when I run modern freight consists- it’s CSX. That said, I like including rolling stock from its predecessors, the”Family Lines”, L&N,  B&O, WM, etc...

JUst to clarify- are those Tofcees Lionel 40’ trailers?

Paul, I got one of the Atlantis GMC stakebody truck kits.  You got six!  I should have known.  

Got my Menards REA stake body lighted truck this week. Really nice and the tailgate even opens. Haven't tried the lights yet but as soon as a decide where to put it the lights will be on.

I haven't tried the lights on my Menards REA stake body truck either, Bob.  They are nice looking!

@Mark Boyce posted:

I haven't tried the lights on my Menards REA stake body truck either, Bob.  They are nice looking!

Now see guys, Paul2 could have got them from Menards with working lights and just repainted them! LOL

They really look Nice!

I went to Portland yesterday and cleaned out Hobby Smith for their dull coat, 4 rattle cans.

I also scored the newest NP historical society magazine and the OpSig magazine

A while back MTH issued a separately sold set of 4 box cars displaying some locos. Not sure of some of the loco's significance, but think they are cool looking box cars.

Union Pacific (30-71028):

Norfolk & Western (30-71029):

Nickle Plate Road (30-71030):

Southern Pacific (30-71031):

All four:

I got the 752, 753, 754 about a week ago, the trailer cars between a month and a week ago

StevefromPA, I'm not sure what the length of the Lionel trailer is. The Weaver trailer is shorter, I think they are 35 ft. And to me they are taller  and wider. If I get a chance I'll measure both trailers............Paul 2

This morning getting the paper was a pleasent surprise. The first TOFC set from the TCA was sitting on the step. These were also suppose to be Weaver but Lionel substituted their TOFC in its place. Although not Weaver Lionel did another great job on it. Pic.............Paul 2

StevefromPa, I could not find my tape measure so I took some pics of the Weaver versus the Lionel trailers. the flat cars seem to be about the same length. But the Weaver trailer is shorter then the Lionel trailer. It also looks like it stands a bit taller.

These cars were an impulse buy on eBay. I jumped on them when they were listed buy it now including shipping for $60. These are my first set of the small o27 lionel cars I've wanted to run with some smaller engines. They work great and are in better condition than expected which is always a welcomed surprise.

Buys from yesterday at my favorite hobby shop: 30% off new items, 50% of used(many of which were basically new)

TheAtlas and CSXare from the hobby shop, the other stuff from the market where I got my station. COST, if shown, is only to show what i consider great deals:

Norfolk & Western 45’ Pines trailer....$18

MTH RK CSX 40’ High cube

Atlas 40’  APL intermodal container- $16.50. This is why scale can be great- it keeps things standardized and even if the Atlas and k-linecontainers have different pin sizes- it still works

Plasticville Greenhouse. Thought this was pretty cool

Thats all for now! Good weekend!